Downloads today seems to be more problematic than they should be, more often than not one is required to follow all them redirection to download a file.

Unfortunately it seems like it’s always faster to google for the command line options than reading the help for cURL.

curl -L -O "https://example.com/download-file.txt"

For scripting; prefer the –long-option:

curl --location --remote-name "https://example.com/download-file.txt"

If you want to specify the output filename:

curl -L -o "file.txt" "https://example.com/download-file.txt"

–long-option:

curl --location --output "file.txt" "https://example.com/download-file.txt"

Alternatives to cURL:

• wget

Make sure to always keep your Operating System(s) and all of the software that you are using up to date.

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